First Call for Papers: Writing Past Each Other? Literary Translation and Community
International Conference on Literary Translation
Te Tumu Whakawhiti Tuhinga o Aotearoa / The New Zealand Centre for Literary Translation
Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
December 11-13, 2010
Keynote speakers: Lawrence Venuti and Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak
Metge and Kinloch (Talking Past Each Other: Problems in Cross-Cultural Communication, 1978), explore [...]

The 10th Biennial Pacific-Asia Conference on Korean Studies 2010 (PACKS 2010) will be held from November 24 (Wednesday) through November 26 (Friday), 2010, at the University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
The conference organizers invite paper and panel proposals from established and junior scholars. Proposals from postgraduate students and emerging scholars are especially encouraged. [...]

The International Korean Adoptee Associations (IKAA) invites proposals for presentations at the Second International Symposium on Korean Adoption Studies, which will take place in Seoul August 3, 2010, as part of the Korean Adoptee Gathering 2010.
The aim of the symposium is to establish and explore this new and rapidly expanding academic field of Korean adoption [...]

July 1, 2009, is the deadline for submission of presentation and panel proposals for the 19th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference. The conference will take place November 12-14, 2009, at the University of Hawaii Center for Korean Studies in Honolulu. For more information about the conference and abstract-submission procedures, see the earlier announcement: Call for Papers: 19th [...]

Applications are due by April 30, 2009, for participation in the Fifth International Workshop on Korean Studies, sponsored by the Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers. The workshop, on the theme “Korea Coping with Globalization,” will be held July 7–10, 2009, at the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, [...]

The organizers of the international conference “Innovation and Technology in Korea in International Perspective” invite the submission of proposals for presentation at the conference, which will be held September 24-25, 2009, at the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber in Vienna.
The conference is being planned to analyze the parallel challenges for innovation and technology for the Republic [...]

The 19th Japanese/Korean Linguistics Conference will be held November 12–14, 2009, at the Center for Korean Studies of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in Honolulu. This conference aims to provide a forum for the presentation of research from any linguistic subdiscipline that contributes to our understanding of the structure of Japanese and Korean or [...]

The Worldwide Consortium of Korean Studies Centers invites proposals from graduate students for papers to be presented at its Fifth International Workshop on Korean Studies. The workshop, on the theme “Korea Coping with Globalization,” will be held July 7–10, 2009, at the Center for Korean Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, U.S.A.
The Worldwide [...]

A new on-line, peer-reviewed journal, Korean Histories, will be launched at Leiden University October 1, 2009, funded by a grant from the Academy of Korean Studies. Korean Histories will focus on historiography as a social process in Korea, will be devoted to research that heavily relies on sources other than the conventional written historical sources, [...]

Proposals are invited for individual and panel papers to be presented at the first international scientific conference “China, Korea, Japan: Methodology and Practice of Culture Interpretation,” which will take place In Kyiv, Ukraine, October 15–16, 2009.
Conference organizers are planning sessions in the following main thematic areas: Social, Economic and Political Development in the Past and [...]